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To many people in many cultures, music is an important part of their way of life.
Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies.
Common sayings such as " the harmony of the spheres " and " it is music to my ears " point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to.
However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, " There is no noise, only sound.
" Musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez summarizes the relativist, post-modern viewpoint: " The border between music and noise is always culturally defined — which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place ; in short, there is rarely a consensus ... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be.

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